Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
26
AUTHOR:
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94)
QUOTATION:
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
ATTRIBUTION:
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays, p. 67 (1969). Written between 1874–1879.
